ONCE A GUSTIE, ALWAYS A GUSTIE GUSTIES FOR LIFE GUSTAVUS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDS CELEBRATION Wednesday, August 4, 2021 Alumni Association Alumni Association Awards Celebration Welcome Thomas W. Young ’88 Vice President for Advancement Alumni Association Welcome Mike Bussey ’69 President, Alumni Association Board of Directors Alumni Association Awards Angela Erickson ’01 Director, Alumni and Parent Engagement First Decade Award Gilles Ouedraogo ’10 Amber Hanson Glaeser ’10 Silver Anniversary Award Elisabeth Potts Dellon ’95 Golden Anniversary Award Dennis Lofgren ’70 Distinguished Alumni Citation Cathy Carlson ’76 Ardena Flippin ’68 Heidi Kennedy Manning ’90 Arlene Waxlax Sonday ’54 Greater Gustavus Award The Gustavus Faculty Presidential Remarks and Closing Rebecca M. Bergman CLASS OF 2020 AWARDEES First Decade Award First presented in 1968, the First Decade Award was established to recognize two individuals for early professional achievement by graduates of the 10th anniversary class. Criteria appropriate to selection shall include the difficulty of accomplishment; quality, creativity, and distinctiveness of performance; recognition by professional peers; and lasting contribution to the world of ideas and affairs. Gilles Ouedraogo ’10 Having received his master’s from the University of Minnesota in public affairs, Gilles is currently a Monitoring Officer for the Great Green Wall Accelerator at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), managing data streams for countries in the Sahel region of Africa attempting to stop the Sahara desert from advancing. He lives in Bonn, Germany. Amber Hanson Glaeser ’10 Working toward her MPPA from Northwestern University, Amber is the director for public policy at Minnesota Farm Bureau. She leads the public policy team representing nearly 30,000 Minnesota farming families at the state and federal levels. Silver and Golden Anniversary Awards The Anniversary Award recognizes one graduate from the silver anniversary year and one from the golden anniversary year for outstanding and exceptional career achievement. Elisabeth Potts Dellon ’95 Elisabeth is professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where her practice includes pediatric pulmonology and pediatric palliative care, and she is involved in clinical care, research, education, and program administration. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School with a residency at Harvard in a combined program in internal medicine and pediatrics, followed by a fellowship in pediatric pulmonology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dennis Lofgren ’70 Dennis is a former producer, writer, and director for both documentary and reality television shows. His documentaries covered wide-ranging topics, such as death and dying (Can’t It Be Anyone Else?/ABC), child sexual abuse (Beyond The Secret/HBO), and reality competitions (Survivor/CBS). Distinguished Alumni Citation (continued on next page) The Distinguished Alumni Citation celebrates outstanding and exceptional career achievement of graduates of the College. Criteria appropriate to selection shall include the difficulty of accomplishment; quality, creativity, and distinctiveness of performance; recognition by peers; and lasting contribution to the world of ideas and affairs. Humanitarian achievements may also be weighed. Cathy Carlson ’76 Currently the chair of the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, Cathy was recently awarded an honorary doctorate from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in October 2018. CLASS OF 2020 AWARDEES Ardena Flippin ’68 Holding a medical degree from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from the University of Chicago Executive program, Ardena spent most of her career as the senior attending emergency medicine physician for Cook County Bureau of Health Services. She currently has her own business called FlippinonHealth.com, where she develops health and wellness programs for small- and medium-sized businesses. Heidi Kennedy Manning ’90 Heidi holds a PhD in physics and is the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania. She was a visiting research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in 2006 and again in 2012–13. Arlene Waxlax Sonday ’54 A long-time educator, Arlene is the author of the widely used Sonday System, a comprehensive line of materials designed to help educators provide multisensory reading instruction to students from pre-K through 8th grade reading levels. She has also served as vice president of the International Dyslexia Association and trained more than 40,000 teachers to increase student achievement. Greater Gustavus Award The Greater Gustavus Award is the highest award given by the Gustavus Alumni Association. It is awarded to those “who by deed, have notably advanced and aided Gustavus Adolphus College.” The Gustavus Faculty During the spring semester of 2020, with the situation in flux due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the College’s faculty transitioned to online teaching with only two weeks of preparation to allow students to complete their courses away from campus, doing so with the agility of expert teachers and a careful attention to student needs. Thanks to their commitment, students remained on track in their degree programs and members of the Class of 2020 earned their diplomas. Put simply: the faculty saved the 2019–2020 academic year. GUSTAVUS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDEES GACAC Service Award Susan Alexis ’71 Claire Hobart ’35 Mary Nelson ’61 Steven Anderson ’87 Rev. Gerald Hoffman ’59 Marjorie Knudson Olson ’42 Jean-Paul Bigirindavyi ’00 Mary Ellen Torsden Kitundu ’65 Robert Olson ’41 Nathan Dahlke ’02 Joanna Lundgren Kuehn Engstrom ’64 Ellen Ruiters ’97 Travis Dahlke ’00 Rev. Joseph Larson ’79 Rev. James Wiberg ’61 Daniel Dewey ’93 Dennis Lofstrom ’51 Jean Bjorling Young ’70 Donn Escher ’50 Mark Monson ’76 Bernadette Galvin ’57 Rev. Thomas Neilson ’73 GUSTAVUS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDEES Honorary Gustie Elaine Brostrom Willis Lindquist Larry Taylor Tom Brown George Malkasian Thalia Taylor Judy Douglas Mary Ellen Malkasian Ann Volk Sue Gray Bob Moline Ken Westphal Philly Kauffmann Doug Nimmo Margi Willmert Joanne Kendall Todd Prafke Warren Wunderlich First Decade Award Steve Andreasen ’84 Asitha Jayawardena ’09 Norman Quinn ’71 Tom Annesley ’75 Abby Arthur Johnson ’63 Beverly Rathcke ’67 Liesl Batz ’90 Dan Johnson ’64 Kirsten Tollefson Rockwell ’92 Luke Benoit ’04 Cindy Zaine Karos ’83 Allison Rosati ’85 Jeanne Bauleke Blake ’75 Talmadge King ’70 Dorea Ruggles ’06 Mike Bland ’02 Pat Kirtland ’88 Colleen Seifert ’80 Annette Boman ’88 Kevin Kling ’79 Amit Shah ’92 Amy Brown ’02 Deanna Koepp ’93 Kirsten Cullen Sharma ’01 Bruce Carlson ’59 Rebecca Konrad ’96 Jason Smerdon ’98 Karen Halvorson Carlson ’61 Cy Kruse ’60 Brian Smith ’00 Scott Dee ’81 Ben Levy ’07 Jennifer Pleuss Spande ’97 Jerome Del Pino ’68 Thomas Lindell ’63 Anita Stauffer ’69 Jacinto dos Santos Rocha ’93 Luther Luedtke ’65 Semonti Mustaphi Stephens ’03 Cheryl Downey ’66 Greg Lupfer ’69 Debby Becker Stone ’82 Woody Ediger ’80 Mike Marcotte ’08 Steven Stratton ’90 Kurt Elling ’89 Milo Martin ’96 Hans Sviggum ’03 Kim Erickson ’76 Debbie Lightly Mascaro ’95 Matt Swenson ’06 Patty Mertz Esswein ’78 Mikka McCracken ’09 Deborah Jean Templin ’73 Gloria Floreen ’68 James McPherson ’58 Joyce Tesarek ’72 Paul Fraser ’05 Krista Cruse Meierbachtol ’07 Bob Therien ’66 Chester Fuller ’72 Emily King Meserve ’04 Mark Thomsen ’78 Nathan Funk ’94 Nan Mizuhata ’71 Tom Toftey ’67 Roberta Anderson Gardner ’58 Jeanette Palmquist Momot ’62 Christine Torborg ’00 Amber Hanson Glaeser ’10 Brian Mueller ’87 Tammy Williams VanDeGrift ’99 Joe Gaugler ’95 Kristi Multhaup ’87 Floie Vane ’59 Dennie Gordon ’74 Deanna Nelson ’64 Stacy Vezina ’91 Susan Haddox ’94 Brian North ’99 Jim Wade ’86 Paul Hanson ’61 Chad Olinger ’85 Patricia Walker ’77 Steve Heitzeg ’82 Gilles “Gee” Ouedraogo ’10 Bob Warner ’76 Thomas Hietala ’74 Lee Pedersen ’70 Rick Webb ’73 Alex Hill ’97 Marlyce Pedersen ’65 Esther Mulder Widmalm-Delphonse ’08 John Himle ’77 Patricia Pellikka ’79 Muriel Woods ’60 Philip Hotchkiss ’91 Paul Peterson ’62 Kelly Younge ’05 Sharon Pridal Hunt ’81 Tim Peterson ’83 Lori Lackman Zeman ’84 Andra Ibrahim-Duncan ’86 Jon Poole ’01 Miho Ihara ’98 Angela Witt Prehn ’89 GUSTAVUS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDEES Silver and Golden Anniversary Awards Warren Beck ’67 Edward Gustavson ’66 Marta Hemmingson VanBeek ’93 Elisabeth Potts Dellon ’95 Dennis Lofgren ’70 Gracie Vargas ’94 Jerome King Del Pino ’68 Mary Ellen Tordsen Kitundu ’66 Eric Espeland ’92 Klaus Sitte ’69 Distinguished Alumni Citation (continued on next page) Nola Aalberts ’63 Edgar Carlson ’30 Arnold Gruber ’38 Dean Abrahamson ’55 Martin Carlson ’32 Milton Gustafson ’61 Vince Abrahamson ’39 Norm Carlson ’55 Melvin Hammarberg ’33 Sydney Ahlstrom ’41 Roger Carlson ’54 Paul Hanson ’61 Mary Nielsen Allan ’65 Gerald Christianson ’55 David Hauck ’53 Louis Almen ’46 Earl Clasen ’39 Harold Hegstrom ’23 Leonall Andersen ’49 Ailene Cole ’36 Steve Heitzeg ’82 Barry Anderson ’76 Paul Cole ’79 Charles Hendrickson ’57 Dennis Anderson ’59 Kelly Coleman ’79 Michael Hendrickson ’64 Evelyn Olson Anderson ’29 Charles Curtis ’43 Marcy Rhyne Herr ’57 Herbert Anderson ’58 Nancy Johnson Dahl ’83 Alrick Hertzman 1919 Milton Anderson ’36 Howard Davis ’49 George Hicks ’75 Ray Anderson ’39 Scott Dee ’81 David Hilding ’51 Richard Anderson ’38 David DeMets ’66 Rick Hillstrom